NTN Encore Question of July 19th, 2008.
Played at The Squire & Firkin in Toronto, Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Leaving Las Vegas
  2. Braveheart
  3. Dead Man Walking
  4. Toy Story
  5. Mighty Aphrodite

Tonight I'm playing with two boards as ROCKET and LITBOX with Rob COSMO and Sean METLCA. Phil is away in Europe.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...1st/8...my two boards win with NILES and DOODLE.
...........LITBOX...4000/5000...1st/8...my friends don't get here until the fourth question.  Well at least
I don't have to worry that I'd misread an e-mail.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...1st/8...I go 7 for 9 with COSMO and METLCA.  Rob gets me one that I didn't know.
..........LITBOX...11000/14000...1st/8...Whoopi Goldberg hosted the Tony Awards?  Is that about music?  
Jukebox...ROCKET...16351/20000...1st/8...ROCKET wins round.
...........LITBOX...16338/20000...2nd/8...another Tony Award winner we couldn't avoid well at least it was a musical.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...24258/28000...1st/8...ROCKET wins round.
...........LITBOX...24224/28000...2nd/8...I take no -250 scores this round and get them for high marks so I'm happy.

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I thought I'd misread my e-mail and came to the wrong bar. I didn't go home after the soccer game downtown but ate some fast food and took the streetcar and subway to the west end. The last two weeks, I've caught six soccer games in one week and five this week. The number of games really starts to decline now as some of the local teams I follow are ending their season and the pro team after this next week confines its games to weekends. Finally I'll be able to catch up on my web page.

Now the Encore answers come up. Hollywood movies. Well not exactly musicals I think.

Encore Question:...Bruce Springsteen got an Oscar nod for a song in 'Philadelphia' and what other flick?

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I know this. The only movie I've seen is Braveheart but I've heard Springsteen did the song in the Sean Penn movie. Rob knows it too. I had noticed a few rounds in that we only had four boards between us so this wasn't going to rank the bar.

Correct Answer:....3. Dead Man Walking

[NTN Extra Fact:...He didn't win for that film but he did take Oscar home for 'Streets of Philadelphia'.]

I'm right and win as ROCKET at 36387. I finish 18th on the Network Top 20 for all North America. The bar is 29th in NA. I earn 3000+ points for making this week's standard of which I didn't notice. I finish 7th on this bar's Hall of Fame.
(ntn.com moved this bar up to 24th out of 1831 bars with a 31276 average)

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank
ROCKET	24258		36387	  18	  74
LITBOX	24224		36336	  19	  77
COSMO	22932		34398	  51	 137
METLCA	22876		34314	  53	 140
WILL	11793	x	 5897	5052	3630
NILES	 9965		14947	 917	1676
DOODLE	 8000	x	 4000	5919	4519
LOLA	 2705	x	 1353	7128	6264
(ntn.com listed 7778 players)

Other games:...I'm visiting so don't know what my P+ score is.
7:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...3rd/4...500+ points...I finish 4458th in NA...bar is 296th in NA...MATRIX wins.
.............LITBOX...4th/5...500+ points...I finish 4483rd in NA...I'm here in time for the last 5 questions.
7:30pm...Odd Couples...ROCKET...3500/8000...1st/2...3000+ points...I'm 126th in NA...bar is 560th.
............LITBOX...3500/8000...1st/2...3000+ points...I'm 126th in NA.
I hadn't played this game before but the standard was only 500 to earn a full 3000+ points so not bad for 15 minutes work.
7:45pm...True,Half True, Total Lie...ROCKET...1000/1200...1st/3...400+ points...I'm 11th in NA.
............LITBOX...1000/1200...1st/3...400+ points...I'm 11th in NA...someone had 0 and ranked 5867.
8:00pm...JukeBox...ROCKET...12352/14000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 10th on the network Top 20 in North America...the bar is 92nd.
........LITBOX...12313/14000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 12th overall in NA and 6th on this bar's Hall of Fame.
8:30pm...Tuned In Trivia...ROCKET...10602/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 371st in NA...bar is 343rd in NA.
...........LITBOX...10621/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 367th in NA...no one to help me in this game so I'm quite happy with this score..
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...13534/15000...1st/5...1000+ points...I'm 56th in NA...bar is 30th in NA.
.............LITBOX...13485/15000...2nd/5...1000+ points...I'm 59th in NA.

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